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USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change (www.raillynews.com)

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USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change::The USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change - US President Joe Biden announced in a speech on December 9, 2023 that they are carrying out the first high-speed train projects in US history. These projects are across America

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Why no superconducting maglev tho?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Because having cryogenics for thousands of miles of open-air track is kind of hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but if we just didn't do stuff because it's hard, then we'd never chosen to go to the moon. That guy on TV said so.

We might not do stuff because it's an awful and downright terrible idea, but both looking at humanity as whole and my own personal experience, that doesn't seem to be much of a deterrent either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

We choose to build from steel and other things because they are hard

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